Title: ConversationallyRating: PGPairing/Character/s:
Makio, Jun (lightly, playfully Maki+Jun)Word Count:
566Warning/s: Spoilers for the end of the series.
Summary: Jun helps Makio practice his English.
Dedication: estoaria's request on my V-day/New Year's
request thread!A/N: LOL Makio's English is probably
better than I make it out to be, but the idea was just too strong in
my head for me to care very much. XD

Sakurakoji thought that
Conversation Hearts would be a good—and properly festive—way to
help Makio practice his English reading over the weekend before
Valentine's, and given that they were determined for the
yakuza heir to graduate high school this year, the college
freshman brought over not just a single box of the things, but a
whole bag. He figured that way they were guaranteed a wider
range of sayings on the candies and thus, adequate practice in
exchange for the sugar high they were both undoubtedly going to have
to deal with afterwards.

"Will…yoo…marri…me?"
Makio enunciated carefully, looking comically diligent as he bent
over his first heart—a pink one—and painstakingly made out the
words printed on its face.

Jun laughed because he
couldn't help it. "Yes, Makki!" he declared, perhaps a bit more
ardently than he ought to have.

Makio blinked at his
friend, instantly suspicious. "Eh? What're you so happy about?"

He couldn't tell
exactly what was going on in the younger man's eyes at the moment,
but Makio's instincts were telling him that he was either being
teased or strung along or a little bit of both.

To try and figure it
out, the larger man shot Jun his most intimidating look, and figured
he'd force it out of the kid.

But Sakurakoji simply
gave a little toss of his hair to get it out of his eyes—it was
getting kind of long—before primly taking the heart out of Makio's
hands and popping it in his mouth, completely unperturbed at the
other man's open posturing. "You read it correctly," Jun told
him with a sweet smile. "So next one!"

Makio's intimidation
face turned to something akin to a pout as he watched his hard-earned
heart disappear into his friend's mouth. "Oi, that one was mine!"

Jun just snickered.
"Come and get it then," he challenged, and stuck his tongue out,
where the pink candy was sitting, already starting to melt away so
that the letters were unintelligible.

Makio grunted and was
tempted to actually rise to the bait just to show the kid that he
meant business and that he was still a pretty scary mobster despite
having to spend a whole Saturday afternoon sitting with his head bent
over a table littered with pastel-colored candy hearts. But since he
didn't really fancy snatching something off of another guy's
tongue, he only grumbled a wary "Forget it," after a moment and
moved on to the next heart. "Let's get…to…geth…er?"

"Yes!" Jun said
again—giggling even more suspiciously this time— and if he hadn't
been certain before, Makio was pretty damned sure he was being teased
now.

Jun beamed at him as if
to confirm, ever mischievous.

Makio sighed and
thought that he might be pretty freaking annoyed at being made fun of
in such a way if it was from anyone else, but since Sakurakoji looked
so stupidly happy right now the yakuza figured he might as well let
it go and do the practice anyway, even if it was kind of lame.

Though, as he popped
his second heart into his mouth before Jun could snatch it away from
him again, he made a mental note to ask Kuroi later, what all the
stuff written on the damned things actually meant.

Because looking at Jun
right now, Makio's instincts were telling him that maybe he ought
to know.

END

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